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Dec. 23, 1924.

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Application 'filed 'December To all w71 om. 'it mwg/ concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD L. iiiivicns, a citizen of the UnitedStates,and resident of Morristown, county of Morris, and fState 4of .NewJersey, have invented a certain new known as folding or knockdown boxeswhich' in addition to Vser-ving as containers for merchandise are alsoutilized to act as a medium for the display of such merchandise. Suchboxes, in many cases, include a cover upon which advertising mattei' isproduced and which is intended to occupy an open, upright, more or lessinclined, position for the display of such advertising matter when saidboxes have been opened and are used as a means for displaying the goodswhich they contain. In existing forms of such boxes the contents areutilized to assist in maintaining the cover in the aforesaid uprightposition with the result that when a. part of said contents has beendisposed of or removed from the box the cover is no longer enabled tooccupy its intended display position. The particular object of myinvention is to provide a box of the indicated type in which theaforesaid disadvantages are avoided and in which the cover may beetliciently set and maintained in an open, display position in a simplemanner and independently of any co-operation and regardless of thecondition of the contents of the box. Other more specific objects willappear from the description hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, which show an example of the inventionwithout defining its limits, Fig. 1 is a plan view of the box with thecover closed; Fig. 2 is an end view partly in section with the cover inits display position; Fig. 3 is a side elevation partly in sectionshowing the cover in its display position and Fig. 4 is aside elevationshowing the cover disengaged from the box body.

As shown in the drawings, the box comprises a body 5 which consists of aplurality of panels and flaps foldable along suitably located scorelines to form the box; it will be understood that provision is made, inany well-known way, for maintaining the panels and iaps in theirintended relation to eac-h ether t@ Provide the bedr The arrange- SerialNo. 678,378.

ment of panels and flaps may be lsuch as to tion and arrangement of thebody forming,

no part of the present invention.

The box further includes 'a cover =G which is foldably connected with anendfwall? of the body and, in .the illustrated .exam-ple. provided withside flaps 8v and an'v'encl flap 9 arranged to be tuckedr into :the body5 to maintain the cover 4in its 4closed position. As indicateddiagrammatically in l suitably advertising matter 10 is produced uponthe cover 6 and is of such a character and so arranged as to be capableof being` displayed to View, when the cover is set in its open displayposition, as will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. y

The cover 6, and also the side flaps 8, if the latter form part of thecover, are trans# versely scored as indicated at 11, the score linebeing located somewhat to one side of the .center of the cover anddividing the same into panels 12 and 13 of unequal dimensions; that istosay the panel 12 at the outer end portion of said cover is somewhatlarger than the panel 13 at the inner end thereof. As shown in Figs. 3and 4 `the upper corners of the side walls 7a of the body 5 adjacent tothe end wall 7 are cut away or otherwise shaped to provide notches 14located at the corners` formed by the walls 7 and 7a and at the upperedges there of; in some cases the notches 14 may be otherwise formed butin any case will always be upwardly open and in close proximity to theend wall 7 or any other wall to which the cover 6 is hinged. I

W'ith this arrangement, when the cover 6 is folded upon itself on thescore line 11 -to bring the panels 12 and 13 into surface engagementwith each other or approximately so, the free end of the panel 12 willproject beyond the hinged edge of the panel 13. By bringing thisprojecting portion of the panel 12 into the ynotches 14, as shown inFigs. 3 and 4, the cover will be fixed in an upright, more orlessinclined position in which that surface of the panel 12 upon whichthe aforesaid advertising is produced is attractively displayed to View.This display position of the cover is maintained without any assistancefrom the contents of the box and independently thereof and is in no wayaffected 'by a removal of all or a part Of said contents ,from the box.

l body.

Various changes in the speciiic form shown and described may be madewithin the scope ot the claim without. departing from the spirit of myinvention.

I claim:

A boX comprising,- a body having upright end and side Walls and providedwith open notches at corners between an end Wall and two side walls, acover hinged to the end wall at which the notches are located and ascore line extending transversely of said cover at a point to one sideof its transverse center and nearer to its hinged end than to its freeend whereby the cover is oldable upon said score'line into outer andinner end panels, the outer end panel in the folded position of thecover projectingoutwardly in opposite directions beyond the side wallsot' the Iloody and being larger than the inner end panel, whereby edgeportions are provided on said outer end panel which project beyond thehinged edge of the inner panel into said notches to maintain the foldedcover in an upright display position relatively to said body with thepanels in approximate surface contact with each other.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

